...THE ODYSSEY Is a good leader classified as one who personally gains a lot or one who benefits his or her community at large? After fighting in the brutal Trojan War, Odysseus travels the sea in hopes of returning to Ithaca, his homeland, and his wife and son, Penelope and Telemachus. Homer’s The Odyssey reveals the struggles and obstacles Odysseus and his men face traveling home. As prophesized, twenty years later, Odysseus returns to a devastated Ithaca, alone, penniless and unrecognizable. Odysseus has hubris, a flaw that costs him, as well his men, excessive troubles. Odysseus does not learn from his and others’ past mistakes, again leading him into traps that could have easily been avoided. Odysseus constantly puts his men in harm’s way for selfish purposes. For these reasons, Odysseus is an incompetent leader, and therefore should be criticized. Odysseus has hubris. This excessive pride and arrogance leads Odysseus and his men into difficult situations that would not have otherwise arisen. Towards the beginning of Homer’s epic, Odysseus narrowly escapes from a Cyclops’ cave. In triumphant victory, Odysseus taunts the Cyclops, Polyphemus. His men advise him against further agitating Polyphemus after the Cyclops starts throwing massive boulders at their ship; however, Odysseus displays hubris and does not listen. ‘Godsake, Captain! Why bait the beast again? Let him alone!’ ‘Aye He’ll smash our timbers and our heads together!’ / I would not heed them...
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...The classic tragedy, as defined by Aristotle, has six major parts. These parts include a plot, characters, theme, melody, spectacle, and language. All stories, according to Aristotle must have a beginning, middle, and end, and must follow a logical sequence according to these six elements. The plot is the series of events, or sequence in which the action of the play occurs. Plot must follow a cause and effect relationship, which follows a logical pattern. Characters are the people in the play, who have certain qualities that can be determined by what they say, do and what others say about them. The theme of the play is the general feeling or statement made by the author that presents an observation or thought to the audience. Melody is the musical quality of the play, which includes a change of pitch by the voice, musical instruments , and also includes the high and low points of the play giving it an overall melodic quality. Spectacle includes the visual elements of the play, anything that is observed by sight. Often in modern movies and plays spectacle can be overdone, especially if a reason for the spectacle cannot be found. Language is the dialog or speech that makes up the story, and is used by characters to present the play to the audience. Aristotle lays out a very specific definition of what a tragedy should include, and how each element should be presented. He tells us that the tragedy must include these six elements and that they must be laid out in a logical manner...
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...Don Quixote was the most influential wok of literature to develop from the Spanish Golden Age and the best known work of Spanish literature in England. Don Quixote was a fictional character by Miguel de Cervantes who was considered Spain’s greatest writer. Published in two volumes a decade apart, Don Quixote contains romance, adventure, humor, aspiration and philosophy. Cervantes himself states that he wrote Don Quixote in order to undermine the influence of those "vain and empty books of chivalry.” I believe Cervantes wanted to take the knight idea to a different approach. Don Quixote was an important book for many reasons, but mostly because it was the first book to bring reasonable real-life consequences into the world of literature. Don Quixote is very different to other literature of previous time periods such as The Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf, Inferno, etc. It was an important development in literature and shows us readers that the reality of existence consists in accepting all the impact of experience. The popular literature at the time was romance. Cervantes work influenced the creation and transformation of literary genres. Don Quixote introduced the contrast between romance and reality. Alonzo Quixano who later changes his name to Don Quixote, was a wealthy man who spends all his days and nights reading books about medieval knights and dragon-slaying. Don Quixote is a sweet old man under a delusion that he...
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...analyzing Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google making Us Stoopid?” and Tyler Cowen’s “Three Tweets for the Web” the impression that readers were likely to be left with is very calculated. Both take positions on the issue of how the World Wide Web will affect the thought processes of the people who frequently use it; however, they are in complete opposition of each other in their viewpoints. When comparing “Is Google making Us Stoopid?” to the components of an argument, in Chapter 5 of Dialogues: An Argument Rhetoric and Reader by Gary Goshgarian and Kathleen Krueger, the essay is properly structured. The introduction is in place, although it does not clearly state the thesis or position of the essay. If the target audience is not familiar with “A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick” the desired effect will likely be lost resulting in confusion from the very beginning. Mr. Carr’s position on the implications and effects on the human brain is stated in the title and again in the second paragraph and is in clear contempt of the alleged outcome. He proffers that the media, which most of society divulge in, not only supplies the train of thought but may actually sculpt the train of thought. The sources that he refers to are a mix between being verifiable while others are identified merely as friends and acquaintances. It is in the second paragraph when the intention of the essay becomes clear. The author begins his argument by claiming to be suffering from physical and mental symptoms that...
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...Accomplishments of Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson I chose to research Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson because he has been an extraordinary role model for many people, both young and older. He has helped make learning about astronomy appeal to a much bigger audience than most have previously been able to do. He is a very intelligent man and has made many contributions to this world in his lifetime thus far. Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson was born October 5, 1958 in New York City, New York. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and went on to earn his BA in Physics from Harvard University, his MA in Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin and his PhD in Astrophysics from Columbia University. Dr. Tyson is the recipient of eighteen honorary doctorates and the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the highest award given by NASA to a non-government citizen. His contributions to the public appreciation of the cosmos have been recognized by the International Astronomical Union in their official naming of asteroid “13123 Tyson”. He was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University from 1991 to 1994, when he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist. His research dealt with problems relating to galactic structure and evolution. He became acting director of the Hayden Planetarium in 1995 and director in 1996. From 1995 to 2005 he wrote monthly essays for Natural History magazine, some of which were collected in Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries...
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...landmark of cinematic artistry and history. The excellent acting, beautiful cinematography, bold costumes, and epic fight sequences landed the film four Oscar wins. Released in 1960 and much like Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey it's a film that felt ahead of its time and really rode the wave of the new censorship weaknesses. Stanley Kubrick originally a photo journalist, had directed only one full length motion picture,’ ‘Paths of Glory’ (1957), to widespread acclaim before taking over the helm of Kirk Douglas’s increasingly troublesome historical drama project – ‘Spartacus’. Douglas, having fired the previous director, Anthony Mann, with whom he couldn’t agree with his visualization of Spartacus, assumed the young director would be permissive to his point of view. Kubrick was wise to why he was being used but that did not keep him from being his usual detailed, realistic self. He would hire people with deformities to portray people with battle wounds and in a very dark case he used real, bloody animal intestine to depict wounds. He as thoroughly against war and even then he was pushing that agenda. His style was shocking and raw, realistic and bold… even weird. Hitchcock on the other hand was just as dark but with a more mainstream polish and a lot of added black humor. He knew how to push people to the limits without showing them gruesome things aside for the shower scene in “Psycho”. Hitchcock came up in a time a little bit before Kubrick that was much stricter of movie depictions...
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...The author of this novel, John Sandford, has a certain genius when it comes to writing that enables the writer to clearly picture the goings on of the story. This novel can only be described as gritty in a highly scientific, suspenseful way, all the while involving a sharp sense humor. It is not overt; there are no long-winded metaphors that end with a succinct punch line, in the style of Douglas Adams in A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Instead, there are subtle political references, such as naming the ship after the president who launched the space age, purely for ironic purposes, or at subtle jabs at the evolution of society. In one scene, small seismic devices colloquially referred to as Post-its are being used: “They were called Post-its....
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... Instructor Ebony Gibson April 29, 2013 Final Film Critique: O Brother, Where Art Thou? Everyone likes to laugh, and this film is no stranger to the call. O Brother, Where Art Thou is indeed a comical action/adventure and musical romp Directed by Joel Coen and Produced by Ethan Coen. The Cast consist of many favorites in film such as George Clooney, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson. The film O Brother, according to well-known film critic Roger Ebert (2000), “is based on Homer’s The Odyssey” (p.1), this is an epic Greek poem around 700 B.C. Although the setting is much different, the Homeric journey of three would be prisoners of the late 1930s are similar to The Odyssey and its theme of perseverance. The movie O Brother, Where Art Thou however has a comical twist accompanied by great Gospel/Bluegrass music, and scenes that play into an allegorical concept including references to repentance and salvation during the depression of that era. The storyline in this movie the collaborating efforts of the Coen brothers and cinematographer Roger Deakins bring together a musical and adventurous comedy filled with action. This story depicts an era in time where ignorance, poverty, and racism are prevalent among the effected in the rural South in the late 1930s. However, the comical twist and the characters acting skills...
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...Summer Internship Program 2010 A REPORT ON “A STUDY ON COMPETENCY MAPPING FOR FRONT-LINE WORKERS “ IN ODYSSEY INDIA LIMITED” [pic] [pic] By T. Bhuvaneshwari. 09BS0000567 [pic] May 2010 A REPORT ON “A STUDY OF COMPETENCY MAPPING FOR THR FRONTLINE WORKERS IN ODYSSEY INDIA LIMITED” A report submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirement of MBA Program of IBS FACULTY GUIDE COMPANY GUIDE Mrs. Poornima Mr. Karthikeyan. S IBS Bangalore Faculty Assistant HR Manager Odyssey India Limited. By T. Bhuvaneshwari 09BS0000567 ICFAI BUSINESS SCHOOL, BANGALORE [pic] May, 2010 DECLARATION I hereby declare that the work being presented here is an authentic record of original work done by me on the summer internship project, “A STUDY ON COMPETENCY MAPPING FOR THE FRONTLINE EMPLOYEES AT ODYSSEY INDIA LTD “under the guidance of Dr. C. Poornima and is in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the degree of Masters of Business Administration. I also certify that this work has not been submitted else where for the award of any other degree. Place : Bangalore T. Bhuvaneshwari. Date: CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the project entitled “A study on competency mapping for front line employees at Odyssey India Ltd.” being submitted to “ICFAI BUSINESS SCHOOL, BANGALORE “by, Miss. T. Bhuvaneshwari. For the award of the degree of “ MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION...
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...Joseph Andolina Kris Boustedt Cinema 201: Introduction to Cinema History 1/21/13 Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush” If there’s one film that should be considered the quintessential representation of triumph in Charlie Chaplin’s large body of work, I would have to say that is The Gold Rush released in 1925. This film was a victory not only for Chaplin as a filmmaker, but also for his beloved character The Tramp. He often mentioned that this was the film “by which he would most like to be remembered”. ( Robinson 334). Prior to The Gold Rush, it was two years since a Charlie Chaplin film release. The film, A Woman of Paris, directed by him and starring Adolphe Menjou, was missing one key element that made up the kind of Chaplin film his fans flocked to see: there was no Chaplin in the guise of his Tramp character anywhere to be seen. Not only was the film a large disappointment to his many fans, it was a box office failure. Author Kenneth Lynn in his book Charlie Chaplin and his Times said it well. “For the first time ever, Chaplin had concocted a flop d’estime that failed to recover its production costs.” (Lynn 277-278). This failure “was too bitter a pill for Chaplin, by now a full-fledged addict of adulation.” (Louvish 196). It’s no wonder why this was a blow to him as artist and filmmaker and a catalyst to make The Gold Rush into one of his most memorable and beloved classics. Watching The Gold Rush, it is easy to see why Chaplin said in a 1925 interview for the New York Times, “I have...
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...profoundly threatening is that Huck shows us what it meant to grow up in a slave-holding society and learn to navigate its pathologies. Huck compels us to believe him, which means that we are obliged once again to acknowledge that we live in a country in which ordinary citizens actually bought and sold human beings like Jim. WHAT IS THE WHAT The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel. By Dave Eggers. 475 pp. McSweeney’s. $26. Readers’ Opinions Forum: Book News and Reviews Dave Eggers’s “What Is the What” is, like “Huckleberry Finn,” a picaresque novel of adolescence. But the injustices, horrors and follies that Huck encounters on his raft trip down the Mississippi would have seemed like glimpses of heaven to Eggers’s hero, whose odyssey from his village in the southern Sudan to temporary shelter in Ethiopia to a vast refugee camp in Kenya and finally to Atlanta is a nightmare of chaos and carnage punctuated by periods of relative peace lasting just long enough for him to catch his breath. The...
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...WHAT IS NOVEL? A Novel is prose narrative of considerable length and some complexity that deals imaginatively (fictional) with human experiences (near to life) through a connected sequence of events involving a group of persons in a specific setting. Previously it was known as fictional narrative or narrative prose. ( A Narrative opens “in media res”. This means it opens usually with the hero at his lowest point “in the middle of things”, earlier portions of the story appear later as flashbacks..) Main characterstics of novels are theme, plot or setting, structure, action or events in a sequence, strong characterization and expressive language. The genre of extended prose fiction or narrative fictional prose i.e. novel is rooted in the tradition of medieval "romances" or the heroic romance in prose. The term ‘roman or romance’ linked fictions back to the histories that had appeared in the Romance language of 11th and 12th-century southern France. The typical Arthurian romance became a fashion in the late 12th century. The unexpected and peculiar adventures surprised the audience in romances like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1380).The romance had become a stable generic term by the beginning of the 13th century, as in the Roman de la Rose (c. 1230), famous today in English through Geoffrey Chaucer's late 14th-century translation. Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (1380–87) is a late example of this European fashion. Prose narrators wrote narrative patterns as employed...
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..."On The Art Of Living With Others" By Sir Arthur Helps The "Iliad" for war; the "Odyssey" for wandering; but where is the great domestic epic? Yet it is but commonplace to say that passions may rage round a tea-table which would not have misbecome men dashing at one another in war chariots; and evolutions of patience and temper are performed at the fireside, worthy to be compared with the Retreat of the Ten Thousand. Men have worshipped some fantastic being for living alone in a wilderness; but social martyrdoms place no saints upon the calendar. We may blind ourselves to it if we like, but the hatreds and disgusts that there are behind friendship, relationship, service, and, indeed, proximity of all kinds, is one of the darkest spots upon earth. The various relations of life, which bring people together, cannot, as we know, be perfectly fulfilled except in a state where there will, perhaps, be no occasion for any of them. It is no harm, however, to endeavor to see whether there are any methods which make these relations in the least degree more harmonious now. In the first place, if people are to live happily together, they must not fancy, because they are thrown together now, that all their lives have been exactly similar up to the present time, that they started exactly alike, and that they are to be for the future of the same mind. A thorough conviction of the difference of men is the great thing to be assured of in social knowledge: it is to life what Newton's law...
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...[pic][pic][pic]0diggsdigg |[pic]Get THR Mobile Alerts [pic] FREE Newsletters | |[pic][pic][pic]Film Reviews Up in the Air -- Film Review By Stephen Farber, September 06, 2009 07:02 ET [pic] Bottom Line: Laughs and heartbreak meld seamlessly in this brilliant character drama. Telluride Film Festival TELLURIDE, Colo. -- Cynicism and sentiment have melded magically in movies by some of the best American directors, from Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder to Alexander Payne. Jason Reitman mined the same territory in "Thank You for Smoking" and his smash hit, "Juno," and it's pleasing to report that he's taken another rewarding journey down this prickly path in his eagerly awaited new film, "Up in the Air." Boasting one of George Clooney's strongest performances, the film seems like a surefire awards contender, and the buzz will attract a sizable audience, even though some viewers might be startled by the uncompromising finale. Reitman and co-writer Sheldon Turner embellishes Walter Kirn's acclaimed novel about a man who spends much of his life in the air, traveling around the country to fire people for executives too gutless to do the dirty job themselves. The character is just about as unsavory as the corporate pimp played by Jack Lemmon in Wilder's "The Apartment." When a character begins as such a sleazeball, you know there must be a moral transformation lurking somewhere in the last reel. That redemption never quite arrives for Clooney's Ryan Bingham, which is...
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...Running Head: KUBRICK Stanley Kubrick G138 Introduction to Film There have been many different directors that have had an important influence on modern film. Yet there have only been a handful that not only influenced it, but truly changed how an entire genre of film was perceived. Like no other before him, Stanley Kubrick forged a path that no other had treed. He had an eye for a story and a way to retell it in a manner that was uniquely different and memorable. On the quiet evening of July 26th 1928, in the Bronx of New York City Stanley Kubrick was born. At a very young age he showed a passion for music and especially photography. This same passion was not seen in his basic school work though. By the time he graduated High School he only had a 67 average. This low score made it very hard for him to find a college to attend. So instead he moved on to become a freelance photography for the magazine Look. As a photographer he was able to travel a great deal, an experience that helped in opening his eyes to everything around him. It created a thirst for knowledge and the desire to learn more. This desire brought him to the doorsteps of Columbia University where he enrolled as a non-matriculating student. While attending Columbia he became even more influenced by photography, which turned into a growing passion for the understanding of the film process. Often times, he would sit in during classes taught by Lionel Trilling, Mark Van Doren and Moses Hadas (SK-TMF, 2008)...
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